The Branch Line To Felixstowe - Westerfield, Derby Road & Trimley
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- On this railway adventure I explore the stations between Ipswich and Felixstowe and get to see some freight trains too!
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Filmed on 2nd December 2023
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love your hat
Great video!
I ticked off the stations on that line as part of a trip to Homebase in Felixstowe as it was the nearest branch with a certain kind of coat hook!!
Those ‘Fragile roof: no admittance’ signs are merely telling you not to climb on the roof! I’ve seen quite a few of them in recent months.
Derby Road: I thought it odd that the footbridge was left in place and unused.
Trimley: Yeah, the ‘thin’ level crossing sign also exists at Canterbury West, where there isn’t enough width for a normal one.
Look forward to your next video.
Excellent video as usual, nice Catches of those freight trains 😊👍
Across the level crossing there is a bit of footpath that gives you a nearly floor level sight of trains going through.
As always another great trail and detailed report, happy new year 🎉
Another fantastic video. Thank you for all your videos through out 2023 looking forward to next year. Wishing you a very happy Christmas a very happy new year
this looks like a lovely line to ride & im loving the retro signs at Trimley & Felixstowe beach looks amazing & awesome shots of the freight trains at Derby Road brilliant vlog
Great video!
Another great video, nice to see Westerfield featured. Thank you.
Brilliant video Sarah. Shame about the cancellation at Trimley but great to see that the onwards travel information did really help.
Great video as always and your dedication to your art is above and beyond considering how cold it was and was pleased you made it to Felixstowe to conclude your video❤
Well done Sarah for braving the cold, at least it wasn't windy this time.
Happy Xmas!
Thank you so much for braving the cold 🥶to bring us this video. It’s lovely to see that these (relatively) small,rural stations have retained a little character and individuality while becoming reasonably modern and well equipped. I do rather like those wooden benches. Also, FREIGHT 🥳
very enjoyable video, PS love the hat. 😊
27:45 Follow that bus! No I'm kidding haha
But a line that I have had my eyes on for a very long time is the Felixstowe branch because the passenger traffic isn't what is going to make up the video, it is going to be the freight traffic in and out of Felixstowe and it's many yards
Brilliant video Sarah, it does look very cold in this one. I quite like the fact theres info for day rangers and all that at Trimley, shame about the cancellation meaning you had to get the bus to Felixstowe though but it's a really good thing theres onward travel posters at stations letting you know about the alternative options. :)
Love this line, so much freight. And Trimley is lovely, just wish they would invest in the old building.
When you was at Derby Road station, did you notice the lovely new green pedestrian bridge, that's been closed, since it was completed.
Keep the videos coming, great content.
I really like those Class 755 Greater Anglia trains! I haven't been to Suffolk or Essex for a very long time when there were Class 90 loco hauled on the main.
Absolutely fascinating about the Polish Armed trains - that's an amazing fact!
Really enjoyed this - I must try and catch up with some of your other videos.
I wish your lovely channel every success!
Take care,
Paul
Eyyy I used to take this all the time I lived in Felixstowe for most of my teenage years and was always heading to Cambridge or Ipswich
Great video and well researched.
I think that line could do with being double track and electrified for freight going to the Freightliner terminals
The Chinese port owners are too tight to pay for dualling. It was planned to be dual from Trimley To Derby Road, but it was cut back to a mile and a quarter at a cost of £63m. The work was spun out almost as long as the Elizabeth Line. There is cabling in place to electrify the line, but the climb from Central and North FLT terminals is 1 in 70 with double reverse curves. No way will electrics cope with that. Then catenary and gantry cranes don't mix. The Friends of Trimley Station have been trying to raise £250K to re roof the building before doing other work. It's the last remaining rural GE station in existence. It's also my local station.
Sarah, what do you mean cold? When the sea freezes it's getting cold. Welcome to the East Coast!
Regarding the Ranger tickets, you can't buy them from the machine. Even the conductors say there is little call for them. They used to include, Harwich, Walton and Clacton, but they were removed years ago.
It's a rare week I don't have to stop at the Westerfield level crossing when out cycling 😊
I Used to live near that branch line!
There was another armoured train in Kent on the 15 INCH Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway patrolling the east kent coast. It even claimed a "kill", as a German fighter crashed trying to shoot up the train!
The sign on the shelter means 'no climbing on the roof'.
I'm guessing that they're really intended for doors/gates that would give access to a roof, rather than for buildings/structures which happen to have a fragile roof, and that they just made use of those signs rather than modifying them/getting appropriate ones because it's "too much effort"...
Excellent. Wonderful drab stations .boy they sure need a lot of tlc .not in the future but now x
Great video thanks felt sorry for you on such a cold day
The station looks like it as had a fire 🔥
No, just disrepair. The building has been out of use since 67.
Hi Sarah, I have enjoyed your videos on the Greater Anglia lines. I'm at Great Bentley, have you been here? We have a station support group and we are trying to spruce it up
I am Roy Parker but I can't be the same person as the one credited at the end of your videos. There must me two of us
Nice hat
One used to be able to get trains through to Lowestoft where they reversed and onto Great Yarmouth (South Town ) station.
Thanks for the video! Did you do a tour of Felixstowe station? Original platform is split in two and divided by the Homebase/Co-op car park (with the Co-op and other small shops in the old station building).
I do like the Greater Anglia Class 745 and Class 755 and I have been on them lots of times. As well the Class 720. Shame about Trimley railway building that does need repairs.
Unless it has already been repaired or rebuilt. I personally haven’t been to Derby Road and Trimley stations but I have been to Felixstowe once.
My line, I live very near the dock spur
Interesting.
What was the reason for the "purchase" of the class 755 vs other trains running on the network?
Their electro-diesel capability was pretty much the "main" reason as to their purchase, if I recall - allows them to use the 25kV where it's available, and their diesel engines where it isn't. The 745 order was to make up the order size, or so the story goes, but the level boarding side effect is quite appreciated, it seems!
The tracks at the start were looking rather frosty, was it that cold that day?
Was there anthing of use in Trimley? Or just the trains and buses to escape the place?
Not much else LOL. But the Trimleys (there are technically two) do have the interesting sight of their two churches standing side by side: St Mary's and St Martin's.
@@frankhooper7871 Built by two sisters - one each, with the pub opposite. Used to be Trimley St John's as well, but the hamlet is long gone.
You poor girl, you're in Ipswich. Be careful nobody tries to steal your camera when you're vlogging.
The original Felizstowe station is now a shopping.xentre with the external architecture preserved including canopies.
The current Felixstowe station is simply a few yards further down on
Both well worth a visit.